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The Washington critic., 1887-12-16
For Tnr wAsmNGros Cmrlc.
THE CASTI,E-BuILD

| live in u land that Is all quite my own,
And people IL, too, At my will,
My castle glcams white meath abroad play
flight
While the summer breeze never Is still;
No traitor to trust is admitted within
Like u fungus that grows IN the gloom,
For truth Is that light, like Il sun day and
night.
Bidding flowers of virtue to bloom.
80 hatred is known IN nll that broad land,
- Nor hath Envy's dark visage appenred:
Is treasure is free, so that greed nccr could
be,
Nor need poverty ever be feared;
Love broods DER that land and its bliss
makcth glad
With no thought that II surely will cease;
Birds sing in its trees, notes OF joy to the
breeze,
And their theme Is the sweet one of peace,
prince lives with me In my castle so fair
Such man MS the gods love to sec,
So tender, so true yet 80 strong Is he too,
Like II wall of dcicnsc unto me;
So now when the world, with its sorrow and
strife
Makes u sortic that threatens my bliss,
| sink in n dream and it, silvcry stream
Bears me straight 10 n castle like this.
-lMAGcIE SULLIVAN BURKE
The Washington critic., 1887-12-16
Drink Phil. Hest Brewing Com
pauy's Milwaukee Beer,

the acknowledged Beer of the District. For
trademark (which appears on every bottlc)
sec Sunday papcis. Reiailcd by dealersg en-
orally and wholesale only by y. D. Harper,
1oJ and 7O5 North Capitol street.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-16
"sbcctz. the Confectionery"

WALL rAPER AND WINDOW SHADES ut Neer-
hof's, 0IH Seventh street.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-16
CITY SPECIALS.
Burkarts Splendid Dining-Parlors
for Ladies',

The energetic proprietor Of these superbly-
furnished dining-pnrlors for ladies, which
arc very conveniently situated on the corner
of Tenth and + streets northwest, has intro
duccd new dish, which is styled "@p-ccnt
cold cuts" including several kinds of cold
meats, which If ordered would cost Mt least
Si.h0. He offers this Us nn induceinent for
the business men and shopping ladies, TO
lunch at his quiet and lirst-class ladies' and
gcptlcmen's dinng-rooins. Ladies' entrance
on Tenth street. Polite attention strictly
enforced, and charges very reasonable.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-16

"Shcctz, the Confcctioncr,"
corner OF q and Eleventh streets northwest.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-16
Chrisimns Trccs.

Bring all the little ones to see our Xmas
tree. They are all expecting Santa Claus To
bring them something nice, and papas aud
mammas can find everything in the toy line
at the great and popular Five Cent Store of
Turpin IL Co., I30 eth st. II. W.
'rhe decorated tree is attracting and pleas
ing all the lilIlc hriglt owes Tint sec II.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-16
Another Mistake.

First Omaha Iady--What u lovely orna-
mcnt Won't you please tell me its cost?
Second Omaha LADY, don't know, dear;
II was Il present.
''lt IL made of hard coal, Isn't it?"
"No; it's only yjct."-TOmaha World.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-16
DRUNKENNESS
OR THE LIQUOR HABIT CAN BE CURED
BY ADMINISTERING DIR. iIAINEs'
GOLDEN SPECIFIC.

Can be given IN cnp of coffee or tea without
the knowledge Of the person taking It.. II Is ab.
,olutcly harmless, and Will effect permanent
rate drlnker or an alcoholic wreck. II las been
given In thousands OF eases, and In every instance
u perfect cure has followed. TT NEVER FAILS.
The system once mprcgnatcd with the Specific,
1t becomes an utter iinpossibllity for the liquor
appetite TO. exist. For sale by ;. +, WARE,
Fourteenth street and Vermont avenue, Wash.
ington.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-16
"AIdcrncy Dairy WAGONS" :"

Fresh Allerney butter, churned every
morning and delivered in ! lb "Ward'
butlermilk and sweet milk, DC. per at
Cream. 10c. per pt.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-16
To the Art.I.oying Public.

An invitation is extended TO examine the
large assortment Of pictures and frames at
Verrhoiis, 9l6 and Al seventh street. En-
cravings. Etchings, Photos. Artotypes,
Chromos, &c. in endless variety, and the
hest-~clcctcd and largest stock of frame
mouldings can be found at Ncerhoii's two
stores, 9l6 and al seventh street.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-16

OF q. and Eleventh streets northwest had
placed orders for ~, 100 fine boxes for his
Christmas trade, but his business has in
creased 50 largely that he hDs been compelled
to order several thousand more.
The Washington critic., 1887-12-16

Ono bottle of salvation Oil can change n
frantic victim of rhcumatiim into a dove of
gcntlcncss.
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modern Rampart D.r,p,..

Gen. Brialmont, the Belgian military
engineer who made a great sensation
among military men thirty years and
more ago by an article ON Powder
Magazines, " and is the althor of a score
of standard works on the science of war,
has cclipsed all his former exploits by
condemning the elaborate fortifications
about Bucharest in Rouma1Iia. His
reasons are based upon the destructive
force of the new compound called mel
mite. There is probably nothing in
Europe in the way of Notifications, save
at Metz and Antwerp, that can rival
Bucharest; and if the Belgian general
can be trusted, the whole system of
modern rampart defense must be re-
modelled. Boston Transcript.
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An agent with three or four rugs
in a strap had called at a house on
National avenue and rung the bell
without arousing anybody, when a
woman called to him from across
the street:
"No use ringing there.
Lady gone2''
"They are too poor to buy rugs
He was about to pass on, when a
chamber window was raised, and a
woman stuck her head ont and said
@I'll show em whether we are or
notl think carpenters wife is
just as good as a daryman's wife,.
and just as much money for fine
things. Which is your best rug?s
"This rne, ma, ,am-for So"
"Hang it on the fence, where ev-
erybody can see it. Now take this
$50 bill and call at all the houses
around here and ask for change.
You won't get it, butt have the right
amountto hand you when you come
back. f you happen to say to EN-
as you go around that this is the
first So rug you've sold within mile
of here I'll give you piece of pie
and a glass of milk.
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re.t for tha n..t Iror1.

There is a fact hut little known which
well illustrates the ravages rats can infiici
on q hard substance by their little, sharp
teeth. Many of the elephants tusls inn
ported mt: London are found to have
their surfaces grooved into small burrows
of unequal length and depth, as though
cut out by a very sharp edged instrn.
ment. Noma would take the trouble
to do this 10 carefully, but the rat has
found out the tusks which contain the
most gelatine-a most delicious morsel
for his palate-and he gnaws away as
much as suits him and leaves the rest fo1
the ivory worker, who is neither unable
nor unwilling TO profit by the fact marked
by the rats teeth. The ivory which con.
tains large amount of gelatine is softer
and more elastic than that which does
not, and as elasticity is the thing needful
for billiard balls, he selects this rat
gnawed ivory, and turns it into beautiful
elastic spheres, to be used upon the finest
billiard tables. The elasticity of some Of
these balls is so great that, when thrown
forcibly on a hard floor, they viii re-
bound to the height of three or four feet.
Boston Herald.
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American Arcbi..o,,,,r..

American architecture has been charged
with want of originality or invention, but
this has been by persons who have not
understood the natural limits of original
ity in architectural form. On the con-
trary, we have more originality than we
have known what to do with, and we
have expended it IN thousand vagaries.
What our architects have needed has not
been spur to invention or demand for
novelties, but some influence to check
their waywardness and hold them to one
manner of design till their work acquired
consistence and the public got instruc-
tion. And here we lack balance wheel
which most older nations have. The
want of AN old architecture by which the
taste of the intelligent Is insensibly
formed means the want Of very inn
portant guiding influence.-W. p. p.
Longfellow in New Princeton Review.
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a nero1utlon On Ironing.

Isaac Smead, of Toledo, o.. has Just
patented scheme for heating that
promises to oberevolutionary. be Mr.. Smead
says that he can convert thirty cent
barrel of crude oil into as much heat as is
derived ordinarily from six tons of btu
minous coal. The principle is simple. a
pan is to be constructed to take the place
of CRATE bars in an ordinary furnace, un-
der boilers and heating apparatus. In
this pan small quantity of water is al
lowed to stand, the supply of which is
maintained through pipe. In the CEN
ter of tho pan small jet of oil is fur
nislied from n reservoir near by. The oil
spreads over the surface of the water and
is consumed as fast as desired. Air is
supplied from numerous orifices in the
pan above the water and oil line, and
when oil and air are supplied in proper
quantities the heat becomes intense, and
far surpasses the hottest furnace fired
with coal or gas. The smallest quantity
of oil is required. Boston Transcript.
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The continued activity in busi-
ness and trade throughout the conn
try, first experienced last spring,
indicates that we are surely and
steadily emerging from the long
period of depression into which
business was thrown in 1883. The
improvement elsewhere is not yet
sensibly felt in this particular sec
tion, butif the boom is a little tardy
in overtaking us, it viii probably
stay with us, all the longer when it
comes. The anticipation of it is
good for the sdumps," and the fol-
from the Philadelphia Tunes
viii therefore be found inspiring
and pleasing reading better than
physic this May season:
There has been no year since the
war when the business outlook was
so cheering as Il is this spring; and
1t is confined to no particular chan
mel of industry or trade and to no
section of the country. On every
side in every channel Of productive
industry; IN every mart of COM
merce, and In every portion of the
Union. there is the same promising
outlook for spring trade of immense
volume and liberal profit
The cheering outlook of the pres
ent spring is based on the most sub
stantiaI foundation. Capital is rap
idly diffusing itself into productive
enterprises; labor is better rewarded
than it was during the exceptionally
high wages ofwar times, as the nee
essaries of life are greatly reduced
in cost; the people were never so
free from debt and never so able to
consume, and there is general hope
and confidence throughout all the
various producing interests of the
entire country. Employers and
employed are gradually attaining
better relations toward each other,
and the universal distrust of one
year ago, caused by the unfortunate
cyclone of labor strikes started in
Missouri, has been effaced from bu-
siness circles.
There is everything to encourage
legitimate business enterprise in the
present cheering spring outlook
Being based on the solid foundation
of the general business solvency OF
the people, it is no unhealthy intia-
ton; no speculative flow to be fol-
lowed by the sudden ebb OF prostr;l-
ton. 1t is substantially free from
speculative stimulus, and both in
dustry and trade should gather the
richest fruits ofthe season just open
ed. Altogether the year 1887 should
be one of the most prosperous, for
every legitimate class and interest,
recorded in the history of our heav-
embossed people.
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TO eEr 4 SCHOOL LIBRARY.


somesnlns No'na Nhlen Ieachers MAY DO.
@ sn. : esnoo. once Accom- plisheel-
freslnsht Nmte, recently OF Corneil
elnlverlIy nas =, 10 me Forum
an accoelie ol ms carry educatlon, IN the
course ,.se, OF %hlcn ne lamenis tllat ne mad
SO ntt,e help IN. seiectlng DOCKS 20 read
{ ,snen ,l ne Ae.ls = many tnousands OF
poys anq glrls, as TINS naolnent, , need Just
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Nun ...,, papeI' was asked
!Il'a -" uiu So" uo tt' Sne rePneu' In
s".sstn .sTsl.
..ls ns'' we ~. niue ~ nelP lroni g0oo
naturea carpenter In knocking together
some pnc sneIves. wnlch he also showed
us now 70 STAN a rlch brown color. Then
L mySen Eougnt 1oar qtnres OF brown
paper, ana asked the scholars to begin the
library Dy Sltt OF DOCKS
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Thou.aad. OF unhappy women.

Women, as rule, are ashamed to let
T be known that they work for money.
To employ them assumes quasi charita-
bic aspect quite detrimental to success.
which very greatly increases the difficult
ties OF the position. II cannot be too
strongly insisted upon that honest labor,
conscientiously performed, Is q matter
for pride, and that until all namby pamby
ideas to the contrary are swept away It
VIII be impossible to help women IN the
battle OF life. There are thousands of
unhappy women who are fruitlessly
looking for the same thing-a comforta-
bic home, good salary and nothing to do.
Queen.
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ALong ANA short ortt

The trunk line railroads are. try
ing to set the country by the ears
on account of the long and short
haul clause of the Interstate COM
merce bill. They are forcing fac
tories to suspend, and in some In
stances stagnating business by in
creasing their rates and charging
it all to the Interstate law. Now,
the clause in that bill to which the
railroads raise such objections, sim
ply provides that a railroad shall
not charge more for hauling freight
a short distance than for hauling it
"a long distance A simple and plain
proposition, it is and most ostrighteots
one in our opinion. 1t will require
a much higher degree of intelligence
than is possessed by the average
American citizen, to understand
why a railroad can afford to haul
freight from Cincinnati to Now
York for less than it can afford to
haul the same kind of freight from
Parkersburg to New York. Yet
they declare that they can do so.-
The haul clause ofthc law is intend
ed to prevent railroads from dis
eliminating against non competi-
tive points and intermediate local
tiles. They may charge as much
for hauling short distance as a
long one, but they shall charge no
more. There eau be nothing ineq-
uitible in such requirement, and
the railroads will not succeed Ia
making the people believe there is.
The more the subject is investigated
the greater will be the number of
the laws supporters.
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rhe Enel,,bman,. w,v.

The English take their pleasures sadly, ''
somebody remarked once, and the saying
has passed into n proverb which the Eng
lish themselves appear to accept. Think
it is very untrue. It is like Sydney
Smiths libel on the Scottish race. It re-
quires no surgical operation to get joke
into Scotchman's head. He may not
roar till the hills echo, nor shoot person
who will not laugh with him, as they do
in Texas, but his quiet enjoyment of a
good joke is none the less appreciatiye on
that account. am beginning to think
that the English know how to enjoy
themselves better than almost amy other
nation. An Englishman doesn't make
an exhibition of his enjoyment.-Luke
Sharp in Detroit Free Press.
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The anti Cleveland journals have
exhausted every means of eliciting
from the President declaration as
to whether or not he is a candidate
for orre-nomination Until it is dcfinit-
y settled that he will not be. It is
useless to urge the claim ofany other.
We imagine that Mr.. Cleveland is not
a candidate in the sense of seeking
the Office. he has never been such
for any of the offices he has held.
But he is too good Demacrat To
refuse a denomination If the best in
terests of his party viii be served by
his candidacy. That his re-nomina-
ton win be party necessity, at this
time seems evident. With Grover
Cleveland asits leader the Democracy
viii, in 1888, be invincfble.
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Prisoner,. Peculiar super,tItIon.

The prisoners in the jail have peculiar
superstition regarding one of the stones in
the Jail floor. It is down on the east side,
and in the morning about exercise hour
the sun falls straight upon it. The super
stitious ones believe that when one of the
men charged with murder stops on that
stone it indicates in some way, supposedly
by a change of color, whether the man
will be hung or not. have been in
formed that it's sure sign, and this t
the indication has never once been four d
to be wrong. The negroes believe IL at
e. cry man at whose step that st. me
hanged to dark color went out in the
oack yard. I" which means that he was
hung. .-Jailer in Globe-Democrat.
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Peanuts nnd snmnc.

In talk the other day with ex-Gov-
ernor Cameron, of Virginia, he referred
to two large industries of his state by
saying that Virginia raises more peanuts
than wheat and that sumac gathering has
assumed a leading position as an indus
try. The sumac grows wild and is gath
cred by the colored people at time of the
year when they have nothing else to do.
They pick the blossoms in great bags
which they carry to the cities where the
sumac is dried and pulverized for chemi-
cal and medicinal uses. AT Petersburg.
Va. which is the center of the 1sAmcc
growth, the production amounts to ST.
600, 900 a year.-New York Tribune.
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western Neck. .econinr rb,nner.

SIT is curious fact said the mana
fer of Wholesale furnishing goods house,
"that the necks of the western people arc
gradually growing smaller. Ten years
ago was in the office of a concern which
made specially of collars for men. In
stocking up the Chicago house the firm,
whose factory was in the east, had put In
a lot of Is 1-2 collars. For these there
was no sale at all. and the Chicago mana
ger finally wrote to the factory that they
need never more send him any 13 1-2
collars, as the west had no use for them.
Well, to-day every retail store in town
carries line of 13 1-2 collars, and there
is quite trade in goods of that number" +"
Chicago Herald.
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wise War,,s

To have what we want is riches,
but to be able to do without is pow
er.
There is no limit to the age at
which man may make a fool of
himself.
Agitation is the marshaling of
the conscience of nation to mold
its laws.
What we call our despair is often
only the painful eagernees of unfed
hope.
A man who cannot mind his own
business is not to be trusted with
the Kings.
Anger ventilated often hurries
toward forgiveness; anger conceal
ed often hardens into revenge.
No grander thing eau man do
than to give helping hand to a
man who has become discouraged.
A mans nature runs either to
herbs or weeds; therefore let him
seasonably water the one and destroy
the other.
Talent, lying in The understand
ing, is often inherited; genius, being
the action of reason or imagination,
rarely or never.
Time washes away the customs
and opinions of mankind, but hu-
man nature remains the same in its
essential qualities or PRINCIPLES.
The man who is suspicious lives
in constant state of unhapiness.-
1t would be better for his peace OF
mind to be trustful than too guard
ed.
All experience hath shown that
mankind are more disposed to suf-
fer, while evils are sufferable, than
to right themselves by abolishing
the forms to wich they are accus-
toned.
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n Dlnmntin s.n-

A very dramatic story about the Italian
exploits in their war with the Abyssinians
is told by the foreign papers. The Italian
soldiers fell where they stood in line of
battle. AT last twelve or fifteen found
themselves cut off from escape with all
their cartridge boxes empty. At the
word OF command they presented arms
to their dead comrades around them.
The next voIley of the Abyssinians
stretched them with the dead. Here is "a
story for future iconoclasts to destroy.
Latin races are quite capable of the act,
and quite capable of telling the story
Foreign Letter.
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A Government clerk. .Isenun.n.hip.

The most, accomplished penwoman on
penman among the 200 and more gov.
ernment clerks is Hrs. Helen II. Avery,
of the interior departments Her chfro9.
raphy Is model of uniformity and clear
ness. She is also clever pen and ink
artist. A head of Tasso drawn by her
few years ago is said by oonnoisseurs to
be equal TO the finest steel engraving.
She does her work rapidly. and apparently
without effort. Her duties occupy about
two hours day. The rest of the time
she occupies as she chooses. Her position
in the department. is supposed to be as
near an approach to a life tenure as the
most successful government employe can
hope to obtain. Her salary is 81, COG
per annum.-Boston Transcript.
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Prepare % pIeel The,,.

HlaFIIhSDuIB Ihuependent.
The prosposed scheme of the An
archists to destroy the government,
murder honest citizens. and DENY the
right to acquired property, is set for
1889. Now is the time for a Law
and Order League to be formed In
every town, community and city in
America, to be on the alert to feed
these scoundrcls and outlaws with
plenty of powder and ballsand hemp.
Let our good citizens at once form
such an organization. Eternal vigi-
lance is the price of libcrtyl
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The iron bridge now being built
over the Great Kanawha, it is said,
will be the only one of its kind, and
will be one ofthe best bridges in the
United States, built upon the plan
ofthe Brooklyn bridge. The Ohio
River Railroad Company mean to
complete their work to Huntington
by November and are pushing things
all along the line.
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COP BLESS MOTHER.
a little ehIid viii fIaxen hair.

A little child with fIaxen hair,
And suniit eyes, so sweet and fair,
Who kneel& when twilight darzens al,
And from v hose loving lips there fall
The accents q this simple prayer:
God bles'- God bless my motheris
A youth UPON life,s threshold wide,
Who leave. a gentle mothers side,
Vet keeps enshrined within his breast,
Her words OF wnrning-stiIl the best:
And wiiisl ers. when tempta ion tried:
.God bless God bless my motheri'
A white haired man who gases back :
! Along life weary. furrowed track,
And sees one faco-an angels now
Hears words Of light that led Alright,
And prnys with reyeFentinl brow:
..9od bless God bless my inother.''
Geotse Cooper in Brooklyn Magazine